Education In Australia Is Not Equal For All Australian Citizens
Even though there has been an effort towards the improving aboriginal education rate (attendance, literacy, etc. ), enough overall progress is not being made. One piece of evidence is In 2017, the overall attendance rate for Indigenous students nationally was 83. 2 percent, compared with 93. 0 percent for non-Indigenous students. Another piece of evidence is there has been no meaningful improvement in any of the states and territories. In the Northern Territory, the Indigenous attendance rate fell from 2014 (70. 2 percent) to 2017 (66. 2 percent). Finally, about 62% of Indigenous students finished year 12 or equivalent in 2014-15, compared to 86% of non-Indigenous Australians. This is an improvement on previous years.
Even though there has not been a meaningful improvement there still have been some Such as Attendance rates for Indigenous students have been stable between 2014 (83. 5 percent) and 2017 (83. 2 percent). However, the target is not on track to be met and school attendance rates have improved in almost half of RSAS schools since RSAS began.
How has Closing the gap strategy working to help indigenous people with education?
Closing the gap has helped native indigenous people with education by coming up with goals. One of these goals is to have 95 percent of all Indigenous four-year-olds enrolled in early childhood education by 2025. Another goal is to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous school attendance within five years (by 2018). A final example of a goal is Halve the gap for Indigenous Australians aged 20-24 in Year 12 attainment or equivalent attainment rates by 2020. Although closing the gap has done a lot to help there haven’t big changes. Such as how Closing the Gap strategies has resulted in some improvements, but national statistics indicate there's still a long way to go and even though the proportion of 20– 64-year-olds with or working towards post-school qualifications has also increased from 26% in 2002 to 42% in 2014-15 that it still below 50% which means not a lot of work has been put into it. But it is still improvements. When can inequality and discrimination against the native indigenous population be traced back Claim- Inequality, and discrimination against the native indigenous can be traced until the day the British arrived. Inequality and discrimination against the native indigenous population can be traced all the way back when they were colonized “Britain's first contact with Australia came with Captain Cook's voyage in the ship Endeavour. He landed in Australia in 1770 and claimed it as a British territory. The process of colonization began in 1788. A fleet of 11 ships, containing 736 convicts, some British troops and a governor set up the first colony of New South Wales. ”
The British claimed Australia by having “A number of European explorers sailed the coast of Australia, then known as New Holland, during the 17th century. But it wasn’t until 1770 that Captain James Cook chartered the east coast and claimed it for Britain. The new outpost was put to use as a penal colony and on 26 January 1788, the First Fleet of 11 ships – carrying 1, 500 people, half of them convicts – arrived in. ”
Based on everything discussed in the previous paragraph the Australian government has done quite a bit to reduce inequality but still has a long way to go before we see major impacts. The fact that closing the gap and the National anti-racism institutions have been made is a good thing and those institutions are working really hard to decrease inequality. They should also try to make smaller goals and reach those goals step-by-step then try to reach the bigger goals they have in mind by taking baby steps to achieve it.
